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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was supposed to present the “Digital Plan 2012” last week but the announcemen was delayed because of the global financial crisis. In the meantime, the French Engineering School of Telecommunications (ENST), which had planned a conference around Sarkozy’s Digital Plan, instead reviewed the status of the “digital dividend” in France.

François Rancy, Director of Agence National des Frequences Radio (ANFR) painted a picture of the history of frequency use in France.…

Viviane Reding, EU telecom commissioner, is launching a public consultation on Next Generation Access (NGA) networks. The public consultation will be open for comment until 14 November 2008. Its goal is to provide guidance to the national regulatory authorities on how to facilitate the rapid emergence of fiber to the home networks (FTTH) in Europe with the EU Regulatory Framework.

A review of the European Regulatory Framework for telecommunications has been taking place since the beginning of the year and its…

Air travel is about to become even more miserable now that the EU has given the green light for passengers to use mobile phones on planes. This deranged plan actually makes flying less safe because it increases the number of instances of air rage. While the EU and other regions pour millions of Euros into security on aircraft and on the ground, they pay no attention to creating an atmosphere of civility in the air and on the ground, one…

Fed up with the glacial pace at which European mobile operators are lowering the roaming fees for SMS and data transmission, Viviane Reding (the EU commissioner in charge of telecommunications) says she will post on the EU website a list of operators who have not lowered their prices by July 1. Reding is also pressuring operators to lower their data roaming charges to no more than 35 Eurocents per megabyte. Several operators charge 15 EUR per MB, resulting in gigantic…

The European Commission has approved public funding of a fiber optic network in the region southeast of Toulouse, France. The network will cost 2 million EUR to build.The European Commission has approved a 2 million EUR public funding of a fiber optic network in the region southeast of Toulouse, France.

The network allows access to all operators under transparent and non-discriminatory terms. It is also designed to provide a direct fiber optic connection to all participants, at speeds of at…

Incumbent telecom operators in Europe are afraid of structural separation and the consolidation of regulatory power in the hands of the European Commission, as opposed to national regulatory bodies. What does this really mean?EU incumbent operators are afraid of structural separation, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the consolidation of regulatory power in the hands of the European Commission, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It’s no secret that EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding is fed up with the funny…